Events tagged with "socialist feminists"

The last ever national Women's Liberation Conference was held in Birmingham in April 1978 at Ladywood School. The motion to have a separate freestanding seventh demand of the Women's Liberation Movement, 'An end to discrimination against lesbians', w...

Memories tagged with "socialist feminists"

Betty: “Women’s Liberation Conferences at that point were annual conferences,
the last one, was in Birmingham in 1978, at a school in Ladywood.
Different women’s and lesbian groups took responsibility for certain
things. The Socialist feminists were ...

The Birmingham Women’s Liberation Conference 1978"The split
happened in Birmingham at the Women's Liberation Conference between the
radical revolutionary feminists, the dyke arm, and the socialist
feminists, the political arm. One of the main beliefs...

Realising she needed to meet more women, Mary
joined a mixed straight/lesbian women's writing group, which met in Tindal
Street and subsequently led to the formation of Tindal Press. She also mixed on
the fringes of the womens' liberation movement...

“We were fairly dismissive of socialist feminism but only politically, not personally, we all knew socialist feminists and I thought got on reasonably well with them, so it was a strange dichotomy. Jackie Atkins was a communist, socialist femi...

“There was beginning to be a
feeling that the Women's Liberation Movement was on a downward slope
and everyone metaphorically threw things at each other at the National
Women's Conference in Birmingham in 1978 which was the last national
conference. ...